Pow-Wows, or Long Lost Friend, by John George Hoffman, [1820], at sacred-texts.com

HOW TO PREPARE A GOOD EYE-WATER.

Take one ounce of white vitriol and one ounce of sugar of lead, dissolve them in oil of rosemary, and put it in a quart bottle, which you fill up with rose-water. Bathe the eyes with it night and morning.